How to compare file sizes in Linux

Want to check file sizes in a Linux system? Learn how to do so using four different commands: du, ls, stat, and wc.

Using the ls command: The ls command can display file sizes in a human-readable format. You can use this to quickly compare the sizes of files in a directory.

I want to compare contents of the file, that what which letters are NOT present in other file, and which Are present in other file. problem is ...

I have two basic web pages, i want to find the number of bytes of each and then subtract new from old, if new has a greater than 30 character difference then ...

I'm trying to compare the size of two files in shell script but I'm getting a test: 32: 8: unexpected operator error.

We have two zip files and would like to compare them. We're also interested in calculating the percentage difference between them and the file size.

I need a script that will compare the sizes of two files and give out a warning if one of those files is 10% bigger than the other.

Just use diff directly: diff -r $PATH1 $PATH2 That will recursively ( -r ) compare the directories and report whether files are present or missing.

You can use the stat(1) command to find the size of a file given its path. In your example, taking a file path as argument: filesize=$(stat -- ...

I need to write a bash script larger X Y that compares the sizes of two specified files X and Y, and reports which file is larger.